Statement in support of the day of solidarity with the Haitian people
El CLACSO Working Group Afro-descendants and counter-hegemonic proposals He speaks out about the current crisis in Haiti:
Internationalist solidarity is called upon in support of Haiti in the context of the great battle of that heroic people against an anti-national, subservient, illegitimate and illegal government that, with the sponsorship of the United States, the European Union and the OAS, is determined to maintain power beyond the term provided for in the country's Constitution.
This new situation in Haiti is a further result of the entire process that began with the military intervention that followed the coup against the first democratic government after the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship.
Let us remember that the occupying troops left a series of consequences that aggravated the situation of the people and the country from an economic and institutional point of view, in addition to the health disaster with the "gift" of cholera.
The governments of Martelí and Jovenal Moise are the latest pieces in the chess game played by the powers and their multinational corporations, which in recent years have advanced their plans to turn Haiti into a large free trade zone and a free space for the plundering of its mineral resources.
This is the only way to explain how the Haitian government's intention to perpetuate itself in power, openly violating the Constitution and fostering the proliferation of paramilitary groups and terror against citizens, has had the explicit support of the US and Canada and the implicit support of the European Union.
The double standards of these powers and the international organizations at their service have been completely exposed by the evolution of events in Haiti, where the people have been leading a process of systematic mobilization since 2018 with broad citizen support, denouncing corruption, poverty and inequalities.
Within the framework of the institutional crisis caused by the Haitian government, there have been attacks on journalists, various massacres in popular neighborhoods, murders and arbitrary arrests of opponents, the arrest of a judge of the Court of Cassation, and the creation of hundreds of armed groups that sow terror throughout the national territory, which answer to the power.
Haitian democratic sectors have denounced the establishment of a dictatorship by former president Jovenel Moïse, who finished his presidential term on February 7 of this year; however, he remains clinging to his position with the support of US imperialism and the Organization of American States.
Likewise, democratic forces in Haiti have denounced the terribly negative role of the military occupation by United Nations troops through MINUSTAH, as well as the operations to prolong a tutelary situation through MINUJUSTH and BINUH, which share responsibility for the current social and political crisis in Haiti.
It is an incontrovertible fact that a large majority of the population has mobilized demanding an end to this regime and respect for their Constitution, achieved with great effort on March 29, 1987.
Our Working Group adds its voice to the authoritative voices of democratic, academic, political, and social forces, both inside and outside Haiti, that are demanding an end to the support of governments and international organizations for the illegal and illegitimate government and that the Haitian people be allowed to forge their own destiny.
We reaffirm our full support for the international day of solidarity with the Haitian people this Monday, March 29.
March 29th 2021
CLACSO Working Groups
Afro-descendants and counter-hegemonic proposals
The undersigned organizations join us in this support:
CLACSO Working Group Epistemologies of the South
Nelson Mandela Chair
Carioca Network of Ethno-educators
Xangó Group
NuSur. South-South Center for Postcolonial Studies, Performances, Afro-Diasporic Identities and Feminisms IDAES/UNSAM
Association of Black Researchers of Latin America and the Caribbean
International Institute for Afro-descendant Research (INAFRO)
Collective of Afro-Latin American Studies, University of the Republic of Uruguay
Petra Morga Afro-Mexican Foundation
ELAM-Oaxaca Medical Collective
This statement expresses the position of the aforementioned Working Groups and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.
